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Reaching an elevation of 11,240 feet, and capped with several large glaciers, Mount Hood is Oregon’s tallest peak. It lies just an hour’s drive east of Portland, and beckons locals and visitors alike to enjoy its extensive outdoor recreation opportunities. With more than 1,000 miles of hiking trails on and around the mountain, there’s a path for every ability and interest. Several lakes and rivers around the mountain offer swimming, fishing and paddling. For the adventurous, there’s walls for rock climbing, and guided ascents to the mountain’s summit. In winter, the mountain offers four ski areas and numerous Sno-Parks for shushing, sliding and riding down its snowy slopes. Unique to Mount Hood, there’s even summer skiing on the Palmer Snowfield, which is located above the historic Timberline Lodge. Located on the doorstep of the mountain, Mt. Hood Village RV Resort offers a wide selection of year-round camping and lodging options. The resort offers 300 full- and partial-hookup RV sites, as well as a tent camping area, cottages, cabins, yurts and tiny houses. All sites are equipped with picnic tables and cooking grills, and have access to water faucets, flush restrooms, and shower and laundry facilities. Most sites are shady and wooded; some are situated near small ponds, others are located near the Wild and Scenic Salmon River. The resort also has a small store that sells firewood, treats and essentials, and cafe that offers breakfast, lunch and snack items. Tent and RV sites range from $35–$62/night; yurts, cabins and other accommodations start at $65/night; reservations accepted. For relaxing and recreating in the resort, there’s a wide variety of amenities and activities available, including a kids’ playground, indoor and outdoor pools, a fitness center, and game room. There are also picnic areas, volleyball courts, horseshoe pits, and hiking and biking trails nearby. Guests can also participate in hosted arts and crafts classes, games, karaoke, line dancing and family activities, and meet fellow campers at the community campfire circle. Near the resort are several restaurants, a grocery store and an outdoor gear shop in the town of Rhododendron. Timberline lodge, with its many hiking trails and ski slopes is a 30-minute drive east, just past the village of Government Camp and Mount Hood Skibowl. The popular Mirror Lake hiking trail starts on the west end of Skibowl. Swimming, fishing, hiking, biking and paddling at Trillium Lake is another 15 minutes east.
The location is perfect for those who wish to visit short term or long term to explore by hiking or biking. There's a lot of great places to fish in the area.
Great places to visit, shop, beautiful lakes to see wildlife and nature.
Recently RV village reopened the pool, perfect timing to get this back I. Use for all to cool down and relax. Great job to all the staff for your hard work. Of course management has been a great help providing the support to making this happen.
Place is open all year round so a great winter destination as well. The lodge has a fire place with a nice rock wall along with their fireside room, where you can rent for special events or family gatherings such as for Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays while having the fire going as a great holiday setting.
So my recommendation?
Call, make your reservation online or over the phone so you too will have the luxury of relaxing, time to relax with nature.
And those that like camping year round and love to travel?
They too have a membership specialist or can help safe you tons of money with your new membership to the thousands trails. See Michael for those details, you won't be disappointed by joining.
Hope to see you around, waving hello.
The cottage had everything we needed for a comfortable holiday. We enjoyed the hike that attaches to the resort. The community center made it so we always had something fun to do. The staff was helpful and accommodating. We will be back!
We had such an amazing time at Mt. Hood Village! The staff were very helpful and responsive, even during the holiday weekend. The cottage we stayed in was so comfortable. Fun hiking and campfires! Overall, amazing trip! Especially thanks to Mt. Hood Village and the staff!
It's clear that thousands trails is working on the facility and improving it. The staff is amazing, every one that we interacted with was very kind and helped us out. The two ladies that drive around in the golf kart handing out candy were a delight. One thing I would really like to see addressed is the concrete foundation that is under the tire swing on the playground. It needs to be removed not just covered up. Other than that the facility was pretty good. Could use more gravel and/or paving in the camping areas it was getting dusty at times. Overall it was a lot of fun and we will be back next season.
The staff, the location and the maintenance staff are incredible. Great hiking from the location and fun things for kids to do. We stay in our camper so I can’t speak much about the cabins. Overall we really enjoy the location.
The biggest issue is that they have an outdoor pool but it’s not open in the winter (like other places at Mt Hood). This is very disappointing especially seeing we stay and store all winter. They need to reconsider this as it’s a big negative for winter visitors. The heated pool in the winter is a huge perk. There are definitely some upgrades that need to be made and I believe some are getting done currently. Having a heated pool for the winter visitors would be so amazing!!!!!!
